Doula vs midwife? Or is it time to overcome differences?

MORE MIDWIVE's last birth post dealt with violence in the delivery room. As Lena's partner, I thought for a long time about whether trying to talk your partner out of a certain type of birth is also a form of violence. I did that when Lena brought up the topic of doulas. I thought: "What kind of additional costs are these when we already felt safe with a midwife?"

It is probably impossible to judge such an intuitive process as "birth" with purely rational considerations. I think Lena's desire for a doula came from her experience of her first birth, where the medical aspects and not getting involved made the birth more difficult. It was impossible to overrule Lena anyway. So we brought @__motherlover__ on board alongside a midwife, not only for the birth, but also during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Through the slow, alternative approach and feeling for the birth and the mental preparation, Lena was very much at peace with herself when the contractions started. I think that the doula support opened my eyes to what birth is, namely a unique and natural process in life, a little journey where topics such as nutrition and finding yourself and your body play a very special role.

There should be less competition between the midwifery professions, but rather a learning from each other and which approaches are the right ones to achieve the best result for the woman and the child. Due to time pressure, physical stress, pain, worries about the child's well-being, weight, accompanied by medical tests that society dictates, I think many women are so disconnected from their bodies that they lack access to the emotional side of pregnancy and birth. For moremidwives, DOULA LOVE means more than just another cap, rather an important pillar of midwifery that makes the tried and tested and perhaps forgotten modern again.

and here you can find the cap